Connectionists: Call for abstracts: 3rd International Workshop for Young Female Researchers in Speech Science & Technology (YFRSW-2018)

[Odette Scharenborg]

Dear colleague,

please distribute the call below to your female students (undergraduates  
and/or BA/BSc and MA/MSc students).

Thank you,
Odette Scharenborg


==== YFRSW-2018, Hyderabad, India, September 1, 2018 ====

3rd International Workshop for Young Female Researchers in Speech Science  
& Technology (YFRSW-2018)
Special event of Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India

== Important Dates:
- Abstract submission opens: 16 April 2018
- Abstract submission closes: 24 May 2018
- Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2018
- Registration deadline: 5 July 2018
- Workshop date: 1 September 2018

== Topic:
The aim of this workshop is to bring women undergraduate and masters  
students, who are currently working in speech science and technology,  
together at a special event co-located with Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad,  
India. The workshop will take place on 1 September 2018 from 10am to 5pm  
followed by a dinner with invited senior members of the Interspeech  
community. It will feature panel discussions with senior female  
researchers in the field, student poster presentations and a mentoring  
session.
The workshop is the third of its kind, after a successful inaugural event  
(YFRSW 2016) at Interspeech 2016 in San Francisco and the second event  
(YFRSW 2017) in Stockholm, Sweden. It is designed to foster interest in  
research in our field in women at the undergraduate or master level who  
have not yet committed to getting a PhD in speech science or technology  
areas, but who have had some research experience in their college and  
universities via individual or group projects.

== Call for Participation
Abstracts describing the student’s (planned) research (maximum of 300  
words) should be submitted by email to

yfrs.workshop at gmail.com by May 24, 2018.

Abstracts will be reviewed by the committee and applicants will be  
notified by June 15, 2018. Emphasis will be on inclusivity although all  
submissions should be in the core scientific domains covered by  
Interspeech.

== Preliminary Program:
The workshop will include the following events:
* A welcome breakfast with introductions (1h)
* A panel of senior women talking about their own research and experiences  
as women in the speech community (1h)
* A panel of senior students who work in the speech area to describe how  
they became interested in speech research (1h)
* A poster session for the students to present their own research (2h)
* A coaching session between students and senior women mentors (1h)
* A networking lunch for students and senior women (1h)

== Organizing committee:
Amber Afshan (UCLA),
Kay Berkling (Karlsruhe University),
Heidi Christensen (University of Sheffield),
Maxine Eskenazi (CMU),
Milica Gasic (Cambridge University),
Dilek Hakkani-Tür (Google Inc),
Preethi Jyothi (IIT Bombay),
Esther Klabbers (ReadSpeaker),
Lori Lamel (LIMSI CNRS)
Yang Liu (University of Texas Dallas)
Karen Livescu (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago),
Pratibha Moogi (Samsung Electronics),
Emily Mower Provost (University of Michigah),
Catharine Oertel (EPFL)
Bhuvana Ramabhadran (Google Inc),
Odette Scharenborg (M*Modal),
Elizabeth Shriberg (Ellipsis Health Inc),
Isabel Trancoso (INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico)

For further details, please see:  
https://sites.google.com/view/yfrsw2018/home